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2018 Women's Volleyball Roster

William Jewell College
William Jewell College

17 Olivia Tolberd

17 Olivia Tolberd

  • Position:
    Libero
  • Height:
    5-3
  • Class:
    Senior
  • Hometown:
    Wichita, KS
  • Major:
    Mathematics / Psychological Sciences
  • Prev School:
    Kapaun Mt. Carmel Catholic

Summary

Biography

Honors & Awards:
• All-Time Leader in Career Digs: 2,201
• 2019 Omar William Nadler Award
• 2019 Council of Presidents' Academic Excellence Award
• 2019 GLVC James R. Spalding Sportsmanship Award Finalist
• 2018 Academic All-GLVC
• 2018 Washburn Invitational All-Tournament Team
• 2017 All-GLVC Second Team
• 2017 Academic All-GLVC
• 2017 Missouri S&T Middle of Everywhere All-Tournament Team
• 2017 Cardinal Defensive Player of the Year
• 2016 Academic All-GLVC
• 2016 All-GLVC First Team
• 2016 Cardinal Defensive Player of the Year
• 2016 Cardinal Most Valuable Player
• 2015 Academic All-GLVC
• 2015 Cardinal Defensive Player of the Year

Career: Graduates as the all-time leader in career digs (2,201) and digs per set (4.85)...Is also the NCAA era leader in career sets and matches played...Is second in service aces, sixth in service aces per set...Eighth in assists and assists per set

2018 (Senior): Academic All-GLVC...Omar William Nadler Award...James R. Spalding Sportsmanship Award...Council of Presidents' Academic Excellence Award...Appeared in 102 sets in her final season...Missed two matches and played final five weeks with injury as a defensive specialist…Led the team with 4.17 digs per set and 425 total…Tied for the team lead with 14 service aces…Became Jewell’s all-time leader in career digs on October 13 versus Wisconsin-Parkside…Posted a season-best 32 digs against Southeastern Oklahoma…Had 19 matches with double-digit digs, including seven with 20 or more...Was one of only eight active players across all levels of NCAA volleyball with more than 2,200 career digs 

2017 (Junior): All-GLVC Second Team...Academic All-GLVC...Only Jewell player to appear in all 120 sets in 2017...Ranked eighth in NCAA II and second in the GLVC, and broke her own single season records with 667 digs and 5.56 per set (28th in DII)...Committed only 12 receiving errors on the season while collecting 14 aces...Totaled double-digit digs in all 31 games and ran her streak of consecutive games to 60...Posted at least 20 digs in 18 different matches and 30 or more on five different occasions with a season best 32 at Missouri S&T...Fourth on the team with 96 assists, including a career high 11 at Maryville

2016 (Sophomore): All-GLVC First Team...Cardinal Defensive Player of the Year...Cardinal Most Valuable Player...Academic All-GLVC...One of just three players to appear in all 119 sets...Set single season record with 630 digs which also ranked 31st in all of NCAA Division II...Was fourth in the GLVC and 43rd nationally with 5.29 digs per set...During conference that number rose to 6.00 per set which was second in the league...Was also second on the team with 26 service aces and third with 90 assists...Posted double-digit digs in 29 consecutive matches to finish the season...Collected 20+ digs in 14 matches and 30+ on two occasions...Posted 36 digs against Bellarmine which was the most in a four-set match in the GLVC and ranks third in Jewell history in a single match...Against Missouri-St. Louis she collected 37 digs which is second in a single match at Jewell...Became first Jewell volleyball player to be named All-GLVC, earning first team honors...On November 1 against Central Missouri she became the first player since joining NCAA II and just the third player in more than a decade to reach 1,000 career digs

2015 (Freshman): Academic All-GLVC...Served as the primary libero in 2015 appearing in 31 matches...Led the team with 477 total digs with a season high 27 against Malone...Topped the team and ranked eleventh in the GLVC with 4.26 digs per set...Collected 20+ digs on ten different occasions...Was third on the team with 30 total aces and ranked fifteenth in the GLVC with 0.27 aces per set...Also added 89 assists for third on the team

Off the Court: Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority...Emerging Leaders 

Prep:
Won two varsity volleyball letters under coach Terri Hessman...Was a two-time All-Conference selection...Led the Crusaders to a third place finish in the Class 5A State Tournament...Also 2012 All-Conference softball player...Played club ball for the ICT Mav and Elite under coach Destiny Clark

Personal: Born July 16 in Wichita, Kansas...Daughter of Jeff and Liz Ann Tolberd...Has two siblings Elizabeth and Jon...Majoring in Mathematics and Psychological Sciences


Career-Highs
Kills: 
2 vs. Quincy (11/12/2016)
Attacks: 5 vs. Ursuline (10/16/2015)
Digs: 37 vs. Missouri-St. Louis (10/22/2016)
Assists: 11 vs. Maryville (10/21/2017)
Blocks: 0
Aces: 6 - 3x; Last vs. Drury (10/10/2015)


Double-figures:
Kills: 
0
Digs: 105
Assists: 1
Double-Doubles: 1

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Historical Player Information

  • 6

    2015Freshman

    DS/L
    5'3"
    6
  • 17

    2016Sophomore

    DS/L
    5'3"
    17
  • 17

    2017Junior

    DS/L
    5'3"
    17
  • 17

    2018Senior

    Libero
    5'3"
    17
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